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Last Resort Mods 🌊 ([personal profile] killerwaves) wrote in [community profile] guiltrip2023-05-13 11:01 am

WELCOME

INTRO



Whoever you are, wherever you were, the last thing you remember is the salty smell of the sea breeze and a distinct tickle of electricity across your body. Enough to cause alarm perhaps, but in the next moment it all goes black, or blue to be more precise. When you stir into consciousness, those fuzzy sensations are all that you have as an explanation, though there's certainly more to experience around you.

The warm bright rays of the sun, the rhythmic cresting of the waves into the shore, the unfortunate feeling of sand sticking to you everywhere, because you're lying flat on your back on a beach without a beach towel. At least you're not alone, and at least it doesn't seem like you've been completely dumped unceremoniously, as there's orderly space between you and the 27 others who share your predicament. Whoever left you here probably could have dumped you into a pile, but they have better manners than that.

However you decide to react to your sudden vacation, you'll find that you're dressed just as you last recall and that you have at least one possession of yours on hand. Whatever else you had on you appears to be affected by baggage routing, unfortunately. You'll also find a key inscribed with a particular bird and a strange device in your pocket, ostenstibly some type of cellphone from the period when blackberrys were all the rage. A pop-up window will greet you when you turn on the device, prompting you to pick a username (this pop-up can be ignored for up to 24 hours) and also walking you through a basic tutorial on its functions. For now, it seems like the public network isn't running, but the direct message function is availiable. It ends with a cheerful blurb instructing that "For further questions and help, please contact one of the hotel staff!"

As there's nary a soul that seems to actually work here on the beach proper, it might be worth it to explore. Around the resort are robots manning the buffet, sweeping, and even making cocktails if you want to drink your problems away. While they'll answer to basic commands, provide you with a map of the island, or even be happy to tell you the weather, they're incapable of engaging in any meaningful dialogue. Any questions or demands they can't answer will yield the statement to please contact the administrators.

Whoever they may be, but they'll show their faces eventually. Probably.
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[personal profile] diabolizes 2023-05-14 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
Of course. All creatures like that should be destroyed, unless you use them for other purposes.

[ Like taking their resentful energy. ]

So, you sit around and listen back to sounds all day?
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[personal profile] diabolizes 2023-05-14 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ He shakes his head, patting the flute at his waist. ]

This is my weapon. That's why I play it.
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[personal profile] rhythmaction 2023-05-14 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. [A pause.] Technically, she's not my cat, Peppermint made her. But between you and me? [He leans forward, and speaks in a loud, dramatic whisper.] She likes me better. Plus, she syncs up with my cool musical robot powers and lets me pull off some sick combos.

[He leans back again, tucking his hands behind his head.]

So, what brings you to the island?

[This guy...seems kind of clueless.]
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[personal profile] gluttoning 2023-05-14 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Ah.

[He takes a quick glance at their surroundings. This island isn't too big, and if there's almost 30 people foraging, adding himself in...]

We wouldn't last long.
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[personal profile] rhythmaction 2023-05-14 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
Whaaaat? The resort is awesome! Obviously, this was a surprise beach vacation. Like, sure, I definitely would've appreciated a heads up, but I'm enjoyin' the sun and the waves.

[Ah. So he's just stupid, then. 808 curls her tail in front of her face, glowering at Zelkov.]

I bet that outfit doesn't help with the heat. C'mon--don't you wanna wade in the water or something?
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[personal profile] diabolizes 2023-05-14 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
What a lucky man you are.

[ He could be jealous, but he truly has no envy (get it) for the people not in his situation made from his own choices. ]

You'll be enjoying liquor with Wei Wuxian. And who might I be enjoying it with?
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[personal profile] diabolizes 2023-05-14 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, well you're right about that!

[ He laughs. ]

What I really mean to say is it takes a lot for me to hold a grudge.
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[personal profile] diabolizes 2023-05-14 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
You did great! I'll give this drink the highest marks!

[ And he'll have another sip, thank you very much! ]
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[personal profile] felame 2023-05-14 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
Hell out of dodge.

[ vergilius truly has such a beautiful way with words. ]

I suppose it could only escalate to that point, after the Hana got involved.

[ it still doesn't quite make sense to her that she's here here, but the explanations of how hardly matter in the long run. even still: ]

Well. I appreciate the additional information, Red Gaze, regardless of its relevance to our current predicament. Have you gotten to speak with others here?
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[personal profile] passetemps 2023-05-14 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ bro he fully supports whatever relationship you want to have with picasso, he just doesn't know what that has to do with beating people up with beer bottles ]

Only vague ideas thus far, but gradually developing and evolving those ideas is integral to the artistic experience.

[ billy could almost be his father, so fair on his part tbh. it just feels bizarre to be on this end of it when he's used to being one of the oldest people around. ]

Perhaps I might with time, but at present I do not know enough about any of them to consider them allies worthy of my trust.
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[personal profile] townmusician 2023-05-14 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
Close enough for now.

[At least he’s calmed down a bit and stopped shouting.]
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[personal profile] townmusician 2023-05-14 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Wearing sunglasses wouldn’t make you more of an idol anyways!

[Everyone can wear sunglasses.]

Isn’t that basically the same thing, though? It’s a weird island, we can’t just live here forever.
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[personal profile] townmusician 2023-05-14 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
[WEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH]
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[personal profile] townmusician 2023-05-14 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
A pudding?

[Is he being insulted… He doesn’t understand…]
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[personal profile] dakicover 2023-05-14 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Ugh.

[ so one way or another, they might die. whether it's of starvation or because someone wants to power an island is the real question, though. ]
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program rhythm

[personal profile] rhythmaction 2023-05-14 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Huh?

[Hey, man. There's a guy with a robot arm sitting at the bar. On the seat next to him is a robot cat--differently designed than the other cats. The cat's tail swishes back and forth as she paws at a stray wrapper on the bar table. Chai turns, apparently startled by Magolor speaking to him.]

Well, I think these robots are way nicer than the ones I dealt with before. And they gave me a free drink!

[He lifts his glass, showing off his mocktail and grinning. He seems pretty cheerful, all things considered.]
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[personal profile] townmusician 2023-05-14 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
…

[He has found a bizarre sense of peace.]

This is worse then any isekai my classmates watch.
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[personal profile] townmusician 2023-05-14 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Feeling and looking like he bit a lemon:]

Please spare my life, Kanon-chan.
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[personal profile] townmusician 2023-05-14 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, she took out one of the fish…

[rip singing fish]
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[personal profile] townmusician 2023-05-14 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
Your… what? How is that a weapon?

[Does he actually want to know…]
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[personal profile] dancing_flames 2023-05-14 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
Well, at least we won't have to worry about running out of food.

[That's... a plus? Maybe?]
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[personal profile] dakicover 2023-05-14 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
Ise-what?

[ he tilts his head. ]

Is that some sort of TV show?

[ listen, just because they pay for cable doesn't mean they have tv... ]
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[personal profile] felame 2023-05-14 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ she could say something about a job half-done is a job not worth doing at all, but she'll refrain. at least that makes one less thing to mentally note down... and at least xiao has manners, even if he is an absolute boomer.

speaking of— ]


It's antiquated technology. Rather than my familiarity, it's your unfamiliarity with it that's particularly noteworthy.

[ hm. ]

I'm curious to hear where in The City you're from.
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[personal profile] townmusician 2023-05-14 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Can’t relate, he forms grudges just hearing people called perfect.]

…Right. I’ll try to keep that in mind.

[He’s so good at getting on everyone’s bad side.]
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[personal profile] townmusician 2023-05-14 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Is everyone here a cannibal?

[JUMPING TO THE WILDLY WRONG CONCLUSION, THANKS BEEL.]